Sita Fenerty (Lewiston, NY) is an abstract landscape painter whose oil works on linen evoke the shifting moods and quiet intensity of the natural world. Raised along the shores of Lake Ontario and now based in Crested Butte, Colorado, she has always been drawn to the poetry of wild places, their rhythms, silences, and ever-changing forms. Her work is rooted in an intimate relationship with the terrain of the West Elk Mountains.

Fenerty translates topography into gesture, line, and color, building her paintings through translucent veils of oil pigment and marks made with mineral ores gathered from the land itself. She describes this practice as neo-plein air, a reimagining of traditional plein air painting in which landscape is experienced through perception, memory, and touch rather than observation alone.

Her mountain forms drift between representation and abstraction, dissolving and reemerging like weather across a distant ridge. Loosely inspired by Kurt Vonnegut’s Slaughterhouse-Five and its vision of time as a tangle of spaghetti-like strands, Fenerty’s landscapes entwine memory, place, and time. In her work, nature is never a fixed scene, but a living presence, restless, elemental, and inseparable from the earth through which it is expressed.